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Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives.

Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As the devastating disease begins to ravage Bucky’s playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: fear, panic, anger, bewilderment, suffering, and pain. Moving between the streets of Newark and a pristine summer camp high in the Poconos, Nemesis tenderly and startlingly depicts Cantor’s passage into personal disaster, the condition of childhood, and the painful effect that the wartime polio epidemic has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children.

©2010 Philip Roth (P)2010 Blackstone Publishing 20e siècle Fiction Fiction de genre Historique Littérature mondiale Patrimoine juif
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I had to read this book for university and I used the audiobook alongside the physical book to aid understanding. I found the narrator did a great job emphasizing what needed to be emphasized, tell the story through a realistic lens. The writing is great and the story is straightforward yet complex in its inner workings. Would definitely recommend to anyone wanting an easy listen and something to think about.

A Compelling and Well Thought Out Novel

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